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What does it even mean to run PHP in the browser... Is this supposed to be some sort of replacement for server-side PHP?

by mizzao 4y ago

franky47 4y ago
Skip React/Vue/Svelte/next week's JS framework and client-side render your app directly in PHP, genius. /s
- have_faith 4y ago
  This just replaces the frontend framework written in JS with a frontend framework written in PHP compiled via wasm. It doesn't eliminate the need for something to manage views and state on the front end, as that's where you're executing all of your code now?
  - franky47 4y ago
    Yes indeed. The sarcasm may have been lost in my reply, running PHP in the browser is a great feat of engineering, but not a practical one.
    - have_faith 4y ago
      It's rare that I don't discern sarcasm, my bad!
    - zelphirkalt 4y ago
      Just wait what things on top of that WP-PHP people will come up with. This thing will blind enough people with the looks of "modern and shiny", that they might create something similarly vulnerable and mistake prone to original WP plugins. I mean, someone must be writing these plugins ... shudders
    - cylinder714 4y ago
      It's an awesome hack, though. "Approved!"
laundermaf 4y ago
First thing that came to mind is that I could load this up on a static host, saving content in a local SQLite (or even in SQLite in S3), make changes and then export the results to S3 as static HTML files. All without ever running any PHP/SQL host. One could technically upload this to GitHub Pages. Endless possibilities!
- 0xChain 4y ago
  I was thinking the exact same, but with Cloudflare Pages in order to use the WAF to see if it may help thwart any PHP-related vulns
- paulryanrogers 4y ago
  What kind of download size though?
- adamziel 4y ago
  I already did! https://adamziel.github.io/index.html https://adamziel.github.io/index.html https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html It also lives on netlify: https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/ https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/

What does it even mean to run PHP in the browser... Is this supposed to be some sort of replacement for server-side PHP?

by mizzao 4y ago

What does it even mean to run PHP in the browser... Is this supposed to be some sort of replacement for server-side PHP?

franky47 4y ago

Skip React/Vue/Svelte/next week's JS framework and client-side render your app directly in PHP, genius. /s

have_faith 4y ago
This just replaces the frontend framework written in JS with a frontend framework written in PHP compiled via wasm. It doesn't eliminate the need for something to manage views and state on the front end, as that's where you're executing all of your code now?
- franky47 4y ago
  Yes indeed. The sarcasm may have been lost in my reply, running PHP in the browser is a great feat of engineering, but not a practical one.
  - have_faith 4y ago
    It's rare that I don't discern sarcasm, my bad!
  - zelphirkalt 4y ago
    Just wait what things on top of that WP-PHP people will come up with. This thing will blind enough people with the looks of "modern and shiny", that they might create something similarly vulnerable and mistake prone to original WP plugins. I mean, someone must be writing these plugins ... shudders
  - cylinder714 4y ago
    It's an awesome hack, though. "Approved!"

laundermaf 4y ago

First thing that came to mind is that I could load this up on a static host, saving content in a local SQLite (or even in SQLite in S3), make changes and then export the results to S3 as static HTML files. All without ever running any PHP/SQL host. One could technically upload this to GitHub Pages. Endless possibilities!

0xChain 4y ago
I was thinking the exact same, but with Cloudflare Pages in order to use the WAF to see if it may help thwart any PHP-related vulns
paulryanrogers 4y ago
What kind of download size though?
adamziel 4y ago
I already did! https://adamziel.github.io/index.html https://adamziel.github.io/index.html https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html https://adamziel.github.io/tutorial.html It also lives on netlify: https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/ https://fanciful-gnome-a4edc4.netlify.app/